Puritan premises and practices gestated and channeled some of the liberal-capitalist premises, practices, and paradoxes that are now embraced and reviled the world over. They shaped much of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...

The Mind of the Master Class is a masterpiece. In The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese embark upon a task ...

I. Uprooting -- 1. Emergence of a Puritan faction -- A. Puritans and parliament / John Field and Thomas Wilcox -- B. Puritans and the king / Anonymous -- 2. Emergence of Puritan theology / William ...

(UNDATED) Sarah Vowell loves the Puritans, who left England in search of religious freedom and then condemned and expelled those who didn’t believe exactly as they did. “What can I say?” Vowell said. ...

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...